Feeling rather down ... my daughter toppled my Les Paul, and sheered off headstock

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Lt. Bob said:
nah, that's a good break to fix.
The key is how much wood there is to glue on. If it breaks more acroos the nech that's harder and usually requires pins and shit. But when they break like that there's a lot of wood surface to glue on and it'll hold quite well.
Now let me go read thru the thread and see if muttley agrees.
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Don't bother you're entirely correct.;)
 
slowmotion said:
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I'd say that break is quite repairable. Just don't touch the bare wood where possible, keep it clean (as already suggested) and take it to a guitar doctor. They'll glue and clamp it (and retouch the finish blah blah) and the repair should hold stronger than the wood in the first place. It looks a lot better than some I've seen and there's a large surface area of bare wood for the glue to adhere to.
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Lt. Bob said:
nah, that's a good break to fix.
The key is how much wood there is to glue on. If it breaks more acroos the nech that's harder and usually requires pins and shit. But when they break like that there's a lot of wood surface to glue on and it'll hold quite well.
Now let me go read thru the thread and see if muttley agrees.
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yeah, i should've just STFU on this one. :o :D
 
I don't care what it looks like when I get it fixed, as long as it plays right, stays in tune, etc

I read the head stock is glued on in the first place when they make them. A few posters on other sites said ... the new glue job will become stronger than the rest of the headstock (if done right)

Thanks for all your valuable input ... much appreciated :D
 
johnnymegabyte said:
I don't care what it looks like when I get it fixed, as long as it plays right, stays in tune, etc

I read the head stock is glued on in the first place when they make them. A few posters on other sites said ... the new glue job will become stronger than the rest of the headstock (if done right)

Thanks for all your valuable input ... much appreciated :D
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If you mean are Gibson Headstocks scarf jointed, then no they are not. I'm not sure who steered you that way but once the repair is done, yes that join should not fail. It would fail along side it not on the repair fracture.
 
johnnymegabyte said:
Also posted this on a few guitar backing track sites

Feeling rather down ... my daughter toppled my Les Paul, and sheered off headstock
Last night, my 6 year old daughter toppled my Les Paul from it's guitar stand, and sheered off headstock at a 45 degree angle
The nut and the top wood to about the tuning pegs is intact. The break is on the underside from around where the neck / headstock meet to around the tuning pegs. The section of the headstock with the tuning pegs is in one piece.

What can I do ? I just examined for a minute and put it asside last night.
I will have a look at it tonight, and if someone wants some pictures, I can post them for feedback

All-in-all, can't afford to replace it, or even get it fixed right now. I have an 1982 Ibanez Blazer Custom "strat", but it doesn't rock like the LesPaul can. I just got my home studio completed after so many years of using old crap, soundblasters etc

I just got a Tascam M-164UF and a huge Ikea desk with 2 shelfs built-in with some Xmas money, got some KRK Rokit 6 last year. Been using a Zoom G7 for almost 2 years. Have no amp. Got my Roland D-70 synth integrated with my Pentium 4 for serious sampling and patch editing for Zoom G7 with a XMIDI 2X2.
I use my Laptop as the DAW with Firewire connect external HD.
Am I setup or what ? Now the main axe is down for the count.
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Its not down yet. The same thing happend to Gary Rossington from Lyunard Skynard in the 70s and he got it glued back on and he still uses that guitar to this day. Google the story.
 
that happened to my brother's LP...well, almost.


we brought it to get repaired..guy told us we should only keep 9's on it, at max. eh i dont like 9's to begin with so i stopped playing it, but my brother's still content with it..

cost like $200ish i believe, with new grover tuners
 

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